Word: cocoanuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Between Ports" is the more expertly written of the two, but it has certain fundamental absurdities which seem to result from the failure of the author to think out his situation clearly. It is one of those tropical-island stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where...
...necessary to encroach either up on your breakfast hour with a ten o'clock, or your luncheon hour through a twelve or destroy your siesta with a 1.30. Such are the horrors of our modern civilization. Alas that the days are past when only three courses were given. Cocoanut Chasing 6bs, Day Dreaming 73; and Sleeping...